Harvest question

So just flipped to flower and been studying up so I am prepared for harvest. Everything says stop feeding 2 weeks before harvest... but it seems like it would be a hard thing to time. So how do you know you are 2 weeks from harvest... do you go by seedbank recommendation? Then hopefully after that time period is over you are within a day or two of actually harvest time?
 

Bukvičák

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So just flipped to flower and been studying up so I am prepared for harvest. Everything says stop feeding 2 weeks before harvest... but it seems like it would be a hard thing to time. So how do you know you are 2 weeks from harvest... do you go by seedbank recommendation? Then hopefully after that time period is over you are within a day or two of actually harvest time?
Forget about everthing you wrote above. You are feeding till plant is finished than chop. I do no N last two weeks but still feed P and K. Two weeks before chop are usually (but not always) when you see no new pistils forming. Flowering time provided by breeder is just for nothing, environment and plant determines when to take that action. If you want to have rough estimate, start to count you “flowering” days since stretch stops (+breeders estimation) or when rippening takes place than its 4-6 weeks to go. Good luck!
 
The 'everything says' may be misleading.
Get a good scope and go by trics. There are other indicators but tric maturity is what you are interested in.
Some taper feeding, some don't...some flush, some don't.
What you figure out today will change next week...
Yea this seems to be consensus... trichs determine harvest.. so thats what I was gettong at was how to know when to taper etc.. when its determined by the state of the thrichs. I mean I guess I am probably just over thinking it.. just recently picked up a USB pocket microscope for just that
 

Bukvičák

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Yea this seems to be consensus... trichs determine harvest.. so thats what I was gettong at was how to know when to taper etc.. when its determined by the state of the thrichs. I mean I guess I am probably just over thinking it.. just recently picked up a USB pocket microscope for just that
It is not bad to have that thing in your hands but its only one of the clues you get of the plant. Lower water needs, swollen calyxes and receeded pistils these are three mains which determine MY harvest time, since trichrome method fucked me pretty hard. Sometimes you can run 15+ weeks and no ambers on overrippen plant at the end. BTW you are checking trichromes on calyxes not on the leaves, just to let you know.
 

bk78

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They did a study on flushing and they found that flushing or not flushing for the last 2 weeks makes no difference to taste quality or yield. If you run water for the last 2 weeks you will save money on nutes
If you starve your plant it most definitely has a diverse effect on yields. Stop giving awful information
 

Autofire

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Are that stupid that you think a nutrient company is going to give you false information which would be against their business interests??
 
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